MERCURY TRANSITS THE SUN, AS SEEN FROM MARS...

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.ph...=daily20140610

Pretty cool, eh?

On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 3:07:44 AM UTC+1, palsing wrote:
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.ph...=daily20140610



Pretty cool, eh?

That's the style Alsing !,all they have to do is borrow an innovation from SAA which partitions retrograde resolution for the inner and outer planets using luminosity variations. The outer planets are brightest when they approach the Earth at the closest distance in our respective orbit -

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1208/Ma2011-2Tezel.jpg

When seen,the closest approach to the Earth's orbit (or as the Earth would appear to Mars) the inner planets are at their darkest -

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/1206...12_Hetlage.jpg


Now do you understand that the wandering motion of the planets against the background stars are based on specific observations including this new one made possible by 21st century sequential imaging.

Students will love it.

"palsing" wrote in message
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Not cool! The problem with it is this: as it was known beforehand that
Mercury would transit the Sun as seen from Mars, the images obtained were
what was expected. Without knowledge of the transit there is no way in all
of photography anyone could read a transit into those images. Have we learnt
nothing since Lowell found canals on Mars by seeing what he thought he
should?

-- Lord Androcles, Zeroth Earl of Medway

On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 9:07:44 PM UTC-5, palsing wrote:
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Pretty cool, eh?

Yes, pretty cool!

Uncadoodles